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A. Uniform specimens (Drepane longimanus). 



a. Half-grown. N.W. Australia. From the Haslar Collection. 



b. Half-grown. Australian Seas, From Mr. Dring's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : not good state. China. 



d. Young : not good state. China. 



e. Half- grown. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



/. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 g. Half-grown : bad state From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



B. With vertical series of brown specks (Drepane punctata). 



h. Fine specimen. Philippines. Purchased. 

 /. Large specimen : skin. 



C. With brownish vertical bands. 

 h Adult. 



9. HYPSINOTUS. 



Hypsinotuo, Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 84 



Body much compressed and elevated ; snout of moderate extent. 

 Two dorsaj fins, separated from each other by a notch : the first with 

 eight spines, the second of which is the longest ; the soft dorsal scaly 

 at tue baae only ; anal with three spines ; pectorals of moderate ex- 

 tent ; ventrals well developed. Teeth very small ; scales small ; 

 branchiostegals six. 



Sea of Japan. 



1. Hypsinotus rubescens. 



Hj-psinotua, Schhg. I. c. pi. 42. f. 2. 



D.|. A.f,. V.1/5. 



Red. The height of the body equals its length (without fins). 

 Sea of Japan. 



Second Group. SCORPIDINA. 

 10. SCORPIS. 



Scorpis, Cuv. Sf Vol. viii. p. 503. pi. 245. 



Body compressed and more or less elevated ; snout of moderate 

 length. One dorsal, with nine or ten spines, and with the soft por 

 tion covered wfth scales ; the anal scaly, with three spines. Jaws 

 ■\vith an outer series of stronger teeth ; teeth on the vomer and on 

 the palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals ; air-bladder present ; 

 pyloric appendages in very great number. 



Australian Seas : coast of Chile. 



